Sentence examples for begun when it was from inspiring English sources

The year had barely begun when it was revealed – in a mysterious overnight change of signage – that a well-known city centre pub, the Conan Doyle, was now the J K Rowling.

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Its development as a sugar colony began when it was ceded to Britain in 1763 and continued throughout the period from 1763 to 1814, during which time Tobago changed hands between Britain and France several times.

America's decline began when it was trashed.

They plummeted the day the air war began, when it was clear that the Saudi oil fields were not vulnerable.

The problems for the company began when it was farmed out by Vladimir Meciar, Slovakia's populist-nationalist leader until 1998, to Alexander Rezes, one of his cronies.

MasterCard said the investigation began when it was notified by several banks that they had detected atypical levels of fraudulent charges.

Mr. Soros has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in Hungary to promote political freedom, beginning when it was under one-party Communist rule.

Deep Space 1's journey began when it was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Oct. 24, 1998, crammed with 12 advanced technologies not common on spacecraft.

The mayor's big adventure began when it was Sitka's turn to hold the Democratic state convention this year and the delegates were looking under every rock, melting glacier and sleeping walrus for a respectable candidate to face Murkowski.

Excavations began when it was decided to build a boiler house in the cloister gardens.